The Anaconda Project, Episode Eight
After they left the restaurant—or “café,” rather—Piccolomini glanced up at the sky, which had grown leaden. “Snowing soon,” he said, reaching up and drawing his cloak around him more tightly. Von Mercy followed suit. The temperature wasn't...
The Anaconda Project, Episode Seven
“So, what you think?” asked Piccolomini. The Italian general from Florence who was now in Austrian service raised his cup. The man sitting across from him at the round little table in the small but very crowded restaurant frowned down at the cup in front of him....
Hallelujah, Part One
Magdeburg - July, 1634 "It's here! It's here!" The three men looked around as Marla Linder burst through the door. Next moment, she laid an oblong package on the table in front of them. "What is here?" Franz Sylwester asked his wife. The inevitable smile crossed his...
Better Foundations, Part 1: An Introduction to Concrete
Concrete—”Liquid Stone”—has made possible many innovations in architecture. Yet concrete is no Space Age wunderkind; it has its roots in antiquity. Concrete, albeit of a kind inferior to the modern product, was used by the Romans in the...
High Road to Venice
Merton Smith rolled his wheel chair over to the phone and called up the weather service. "Hi, Dan. How's it look for a flight to Venice?" "Not horrible. The reports from the weather stations are mostly in. There is a warm front that was moving in from the west but it...
Turn Your Radio On, Episode One
PrologueApril 1634, Grantville, State of Thuringia-Franconia, United States of Europe "Der Kronz" was in an exuberant mood as he walked into the Voice of America offices, whistling an up-timer tune by the name of "Do the Hustle" and without a care in the world. That...
The Royal and Ancient Game
St Andrews Scotland, Winter 1634 James O'Fehl, the butler of Ramsay Manor, wearily tugged open the heavy wooden door to Andrew's bedchamber. He could see faint streaks of morning light through gaps in the drawn draperies. Andrew was sleeping soundly in the center of...
First Impressions
The pickpocket thought he had spotted an easy mark. First of all, he could tell from the fellow's clothing that he was a foreigner. So he wouldn't get the same kind of help if he raised a hue and cry that a citizen would. Secondly, he was at the fair selling...
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